Sup everybody, I don't have much to add to the Headline of the Week writeup this week. I've got my head down in this patent lawsuit thing that you probably already heard about. I'll have more for you on that soon, but in the meantime we're gearing up for a horrifically expensive legal fight.

We're hoping it won't go that way, but others who have been in similar situations have spent a lot of time (i.e. years) and a metric assload of money proving their innocence. I'll tell you more about it later.

maq0r:Is there anyway to consolidate the lawsuits into one so fark shares the legal expenses and stuff with reddit, digg, et al?

My info is from the original thread on this, but I think there are some powerful companies being sued for the same thing (ex: AOL) and there was speculation that they'd be the ones pulling out the big guns.

Rev. Skarekroe:Ninja Wicked: Whoever did this has declared war on half the bloody internet.

Seriously. News sites, link sites, banks. I assume they're just hoping someone pays them a bunch of money just to go away.

Much better: Someone finds them and posts their identity into the web proper.

If /b/ can track down the little biatch in Europe who killed the puppies from just the one video clip I'm sure someone on one of these websites can find a publicly shame the original patent holder. We could also file lawsuits of our own against the person for "emotional damage" and stuff.